The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination.

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Human Evolution. Backgrounder. Laetoli Trackways Diagram: Thank goodness for the irrepressible urge of humans (and other animals) to joke and play around in nearly any situation.

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

The Julurens — or "big head" people — are twisting scientists' long-accepted understanding of human evolution. ... Diagram depicting various hominin sites in central Asia and the respective ...

An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.

The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better understanding of our origins with critical implications for our present.